The shrill sound of too much of what passes for current national political discussion is a wake-up call to all Americans that the harshness of our political rhetoric has reached potentially dangerous levels.

Dem insiders tell YS that Goddard and Grijalva are asking the party’s roughly 500 state committeemen to re-elect the Arizona Democratic Party’s entire current slate of officials in anattempt to avoid a schism between Cherny and Glassman supporters in the wake of the shooting in Tucson.

As Congress returned to debate the repeal of the health care law, the staff of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holed up in a bustling office 2,000 miles away, paying little heed to what was going on in Washington.